Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star

[Harry Dresden]

And how many human years away?

Proxima Centauri alone claims the honor of being our true nearest stellar neighbor at only 4.24 light years

78,000 years to get there.

not at warp 5.....

We can actually reach it in 20 years with real technology. Maybe.

Using a giant set of lasers to catapult thousands of miniature spacecraft 25 trillion miles to the Alpha Centauri star system may sound like the stuff of science fiction.

But Internet entrepreneur and science philanthropist Yuri Milner, in collaboration with renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is placing a $100-million bet that he can turn this into science reality within a generation.

Milner announced on Tuesday the creation of “Breakthrough Starshot,” a research project meant to prove that it’s possible to propel nanoscale spacecraft at one-fifth the speed of light. (See animation below.)

That’s equal to 60 million meters per second, or 134 million miles per hour. At this speed, the craft would reach our nearest star system in about 20 years, or more than a thousand times quicker than today’s fastest spacecraft, Milner says.

This 20-Gram Nano-Spacecraft Could Usher In A New Era In Space Exploration

be hard to fit a person in one of them things bobo.....

Maybe we get the technology to shrink a human. Or maybe we just send DNA/Seed and plant the planet and on the space ship it will give them instructions on how to find us and communicate with us. We can do it!

oh ok......talk to Ray Palmer or Henry Pym....

 

[sealybobo]

Proxima Centauri alone claims the honor of being our true nearest stellar neighbor at only 4.24 light years

78,000 years to get there.

not at warp 5.....

We can actually reach it in 20 years with real technology. Maybe.

Using a giant set of lasers to catapult thousands of miniature spacecraft 25 trillion miles to the Alpha Centauri star system may sound like the stuff of science fiction.

But Internet entrepreneur and science philanthropist Yuri Milner, in collaboration with renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is placing a $100-million bet that he can turn this into science reality within a generation.

Milner announced on Tuesday the creation of “Breakthrough Starshot,” a research project meant to prove that it’s possible to propel nanoscale spacecraft at one-fifth the speed of light. (See animation below.)

That’s equal to 60 million meters per second, or 134 million miles per hour. At this speed, the craft would reach our nearest star system in about 20 years, or more than a thousand times quicker than today’s fastest spacecraft, Milner says.

This 20-Gram Nano-Spacecraft Could Usher In A New Era In Space Exploration

be hard to fit a person in one of them things bobo.....

Maybe we get the technology to shrink a human. Or maybe we just send DNA/Seed and plant the planet and on the space ship it will give them instructions on how to find us and communicate with us. We can do it!

oh ok......talk to Ray Palmer or Henry Pym....

So as of now we can probably send messages back and forth at the speed of light so 8 years to send a message and get one back. We can send nano ships in 20 years one way and 18,000 years to get there ourselves. Thats 180 generations. We better get started.

Step one is a base on Mars because it's closer to the meteor belt. To build a ship as big as a small moon we will need those resources.

Should we figure out how to go faster first? No. Because it'll be great for the pilgrims to see new technology catch up to them.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

And how many human years away?

Proxima Centauri alone claims the honor of being our true nearest stellar neighbor at only 4.24 light years

78,000 years to get there.

not at warp 5.....

We can actually reach it in 20 years with real technology. Maybe.

Using a giant set of lasers to catapult thousands of miniature spacecraft 25 trillion miles to the Alpha Centauri star system may sound like the stuff of science fiction.

But Internet entrepreneur and science philanthropist Yuri Milner, in collaboration with renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is placing a $100-million bet that he can turn this into science reality within a generation.

Milner announced on Tuesday the creation of “Breakthrough Starshot,” a research project meant to prove that it’s possible to propel nanoscale spacecraft at one-fifth the speed of light. (See animation below.)

That’s equal to 60 million meters per second, or 134 million miles per hour. At this speed, the craft would reach our nearest star system in about 20 years, or more than a thousand times quicker than today’s fastest spacecraft, Milner says.

This 20-Gram Nano-Spacecraft Could Usher In A New Era In Space Exploration

be hard to fit a person in one of them things bobo.....

Maybe we get the technology to shrink a human. Or maybe we just send DNA/Seed and plant the planet and on the space ship it will give them instructions on how to find us and communicate with us. We can do it!

Seeding a planet with DNA....hmmmm

 

[Wyatt earp]

And how many human years away?

Proxima Centauri alone claims the honor of being our true nearest stellar neighbor at only 4.24 light years

78,000 years to get there.

not at warp 5.....

We can actually reach it in 20 years with real technology. Maybe.

Using a giant set of lasers to catapult thousands of miniature spacecraft 25 trillion miles to the Alpha Centauri star system may sound like the stuff of science fiction.

But Internet entrepreneur and science philanthropist Yuri Milner, in collaboration with renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is placing a $100-million bet that he can turn this into science reality within a generation.

Milner announced on Tuesday the creation of “Breakthrough Starshot,” a research project meant to prove that it’s possible to propel nanoscale spacecraft at one-fifth the speed of light. (See animation below.)

That’s equal to 60 million meters per second, or 134 million miles per hour. At this speed, the craft would reach our nearest star system in about 20 years, or more than a thousand times quicker than today’s fastest spacecraft, Milner says.

This 20-Gram Nano-Spacecraft Could Usher In A New Era In Space Exploration

be hard to fit a person in one of them things bobo.....

Maybe we get the technology to shrink a human. Or maybe we just send DNA/Seed and plant the planet and on the space ship it will give them instructions on how to find us and communicate with us. We can do it!

I am all in favor of sending Matthew , billy and you all on a trip there.


It would be fun, exciting and for you three.

We would call you guys the three amigos and name a sidewalk in Detroit after you

 

[sealybobo]

Proxima Centauri alone claims the honor of being our true nearest stellar neighbor at only 4.24 light years

78,000 years to get there.

not at warp 5.....

We can actually reach it in 20 years with real technology. Maybe.

Using a giant set of lasers to catapult thousands of miniature spacecraft 25 trillion miles to the Alpha Centauri star system may sound like the stuff of science fiction.

But Internet entrepreneur and science philanthropist Yuri Milner, in collaboration with renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is placing a $100-million bet that he can turn this into science reality within a generation.

Milner announced on Tuesday the creation of “Breakthrough Starshot,” a research project meant to prove that it’s possible to propel nanoscale spacecraft at one-fifth the speed of light. (See animation below.)

That’s equal to 60 million meters per second, or 134 million miles per hour. At this speed, the craft would reach our nearest star system in about 20 years, or more than a thousand times quicker than today’s fastest spacecraft, Milner says.

This 20-Gram Nano-Spacecraft Could Usher In A New Era In Space Exploration

be hard to fit a person in one of them things bobo.....

Maybe we get the technology to shrink a human. Or maybe we just send DNA/Seed and plant the planet and on the space ship it will give them instructions on how to find us and communicate with us. We can do it!

I am all in favor of sending Matthew , billy and you all on a trip there.


It would be fun, exciting and for you three.

We would call you guys the three amigos and name a sidewalk in Detroit after you

I would think it'd be wise to send a lot more women then men. One bull can impregnate every girl on the ship. I wonder how many men and women are needed to avoid incest. Certainly more than Noah, his wife, 3 sons and their 3 wives

 

[Harry Dresden]

not at warp 5.....

We can actually reach it in 20 years with real technology. Maybe.

Using a giant set of lasers to catapult thousands of miniature spacecraft 25 trillion miles to the Alpha Centauri star system may sound like the stuff of science fiction.

But Internet entrepreneur and science philanthropist Yuri Milner, in collaboration with renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is placing a $100-million bet that he can turn this into science reality within a generation.

Milner announced on Tuesday the creation of “Breakthrough Starshot,” a research project meant to prove that it’s possible to propel nanoscale spacecraft at one-fifth the speed of light. (See animation below.)

That’s equal to 60 million meters per second, or 134 million miles per hour. At this speed, the craft would reach our nearest star system in about 20 years, or more than a thousand times quicker than today’s fastest spacecraft, Milner says.

This 20-Gram Nano-Spacecraft Could Usher In A New Era In Space Exploration

be hard to fit a person in one of them things bobo.....

Maybe we get the technology to shrink a human. Or maybe we just send DNA/Seed and plant the planet and on the space ship it will give them instructions on how to find us and communicate with us. We can do it!

oh ok......talk to Ray Palmer or Henry Pym....

So as of now we can probably send messages back and forth at the speed of light so 8 years to send a message and get one back. We can send nano ships in 20 years one way and 18,000 years to get there ourselves. Thats 180 generations. We better get started.

Step one is a base on Mars because it's closer to the meteor belt. To build a ship as big as a small moon we will need those resources.

Should we figure out how to go faster first? No. Because it'll be great for the pilgrims to see new technology catch up to them.

first off bobo we have to have the ships to carry this out.....get them to a refueling station in orbit to replace the fuel used to escape earths gravity.....then get to the Moon base and once again refuel and get the supplies needed to get to Mars......then get to those Asteroids and let the mining begin.....

 

[sealybobo]

We can actually reach it in 20 years with real technology. Maybe.

Using a giant set of lasers to catapult thousands of miniature spacecraft 25 trillion miles to the Alpha Centauri star system may sound like the stuff of science fiction.

But Internet entrepreneur and science philanthropist Yuri Milner, in collaboration with renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is placing a $100-million bet that he can turn this into science reality within a generation.

Milner announced on Tuesday the creation of “Breakthrough Starshot,” a research project meant to prove that it’s possible to propel nanoscale spacecraft at one-fifth the speed of light. (See animation below.)

That’s equal to 60 million meters per second, or 134 million miles per hour. At this speed, the craft would reach our nearest star system in about 20 years, or more than a thousand times quicker than today’s fastest spacecraft, Milner says.

This 20-Gram Nano-Spacecraft Could Usher In A New Era In Space Exploration

be hard to fit a person in one of them things bobo.....

Maybe we get the technology to shrink a human. Or maybe we just send DNA/Seed and plant the planet and on the space ship it will give them instructions on how to find us and communicate with us. We can do it!

oh ok......talk to Ray Palmer or Henry Pym....

So as of now we can probably send messages back and forth at the speed of light so 8 years to send a message and get one back. We can send nano ships in 20 years one way and 18,000 years to get there ourselves. Thats 180 generations. We better get started.

Step one is a base on Mars because it's closer to the meteor belt. To build a ship as big as a small moon we will need those resources.

Should we figure out how to go faster first? No. Because it'll be great for the pilgrims to see new technology catch up to them.

first off bobo we have to have the ships to carry this out.....get them to a refueling station in orbit to replace the fuel used to escape earths gravity.....then get to the Moon base and once again refuel and get the supplies needed to get to Mars......then get to those Asteroids and let the mining begin.....

Imagine there are men who's job is to plan this all out. Because you know they are working on this. Whether it's on paper or the space station or even Voyager 1 & 2. Hell, we even have rovers on Mars and landed a probe on a comet. Yes we are so very far from Star trek but you have heard if you can imagine it you can do it.

Don't be a hater. Sure it seems impossible but people a lot smarter than us are working on it.

Imagine how much more we know today than we did even 100 years ago. Now imagine 1000 years from now

 

[Weatherman2020]

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
24 August 2016
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us — and it may also be the closest possible abode for life outside the Solar System. A paper describing this milestone finding will be published in the journal Nature on 25 August 2016.

Just over four light-years from the Solar System lies a red dwarf star that has been named Proxima Centauri as it is the closest star to Earth apart from the Sun. This cool star in the constellation of Centaurus is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye and lies near to the much brighter pair of stars known as Alpha Centauri AB.

During the first half of 2016 Proxima Centauri was regularly observed with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and simultaneously monitored by other telescopes around the world [1]. This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet [2].

Awesome and amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A earth like planet in the habital zone of our closes star!!!!!

When people don't believe in God they'll believe in anything.

I suggest you go to find out.

 

[sealybobo]

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
24 August 2016
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us — and it may also be the closest possible abode for life outside the Solar System. A paper describing this milestone finding will be published in the journal Nature on 25 August 2016.

Just over four light-years from the Solar System lies a red dwarf star that has been named Proxima Centauri as it is the closest star to Earth apart from the Sun. This cool star in the constellation of Centaurus is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye and lies near to the much brighter pair of stars known as Alpha Centauri AB.

During the first half of 2016 Proxima Centauri was regularly observed with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and simultaneously monitored by other telescopes around the world [1]. This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet [2].

Awesome and amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A earth like planet in the habital zone of our closes star!!!!!

I understand one side always faces it's sun and one side is always cold and dark. But what about the equator? Maybe somewhere in between mexico and Canada is habitable.

 

[Harry Dresden]

be hard to fit a person in one of them things bobo.....

Maybe we get the technology to shrink a human. Or maybe we just send DNA/Seed and plant the planet and on the space ship it will give them instructions on how to find us and communicate with us. We can do it!

oh ok......talk to Ray Palmer or Henry Pym....

So as of now we can probably send messages back and forth at the speed of light so 8 years to send a message and get one back. We can send nano ships in 20 years one way and 18,000 years to get there ourselves. Thats 180 generations. We better get started.

Step one is a base on Mars because it's closer to the meteor belt. To build a ship as big as a small moon we will need those resources.

Should we figure out how to go faster first? No. Because it'll be great for the pilgrims to see new technology catch up to them.

first off bobo we have to have the ships to carry this out.....get them to a refueling station in orbit to replace the fuel used to escape earths gravity.....then get to the Moon base and once again refuel and get the supplies needed to get to Mars......then get to those Asteroids and let the mining begin.....

Imagine there are men who's job is to plan this all out. Because you know they are working on this. Whether it's on paper or the space station or even Voyager 1 & 2. Hell, we even have rovers on Mars and landed a probe on a comet. Yes we are so very far from Star trek but you have heard if you can imagine it you can do it.

Don't be a hater. Sure it seems impossible but people a lot smarter than us are working on it.

Imagine how much more we know today than we did even 100 years ago. Now imagine 1000 years from now

dont be a hater?....were did you get that from?....im all for the space program....i cant stand the people who think its a waste of time.....those ones are too stupid to realize how that program advances science and technology....

 

[Vandalshandle]

I'm going there next summer. Caribbean cruises are so boring...

 

[Harry Dresden]

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
24 August 2016
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us — and it may also be the closest possible abode for life outside the Solar System. A paper describing this milestone finding will be published in the journal Nature on 25 August 2016.

Just over four light-years from the Solar System lies a red dwarf star that has been named Proxima Centauri as it is the closest star to Earth apart from the Sun. This cool star in the constellation of Centaurus is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye and lies near to the much brighter pair of stars known as Alpha Centauri AB.

During the first half of 2016 Proxima Centauri was regularly observed with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and simultaneously monitored by other telescopes around the world [1]. This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet [2].

Awesome and amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A earth like planet in the habital zone of our closes star!!!!!

When people don't believe in God they'll believe in anything.

I suggest you go to find out.

what does believing or not believing in god have to do with exploring space?....

 

[Weatherman2020]

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
24 August 2016
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us — and it may also be the closest possible abode for life outside the Solar System. A paper describing this milestone finding will be published in the journal Nature on 25 August 2016.

Just over four light-years from the Solar System lies a red dwarf star that has been named Proxima Centauri as it is the closest star to Earth apart from the Sun. This cool star in the constellation of Centaurus is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye and lies near to the much brighter pair of stars known as Alpha Centauri AB.

During the first half of 2016 Proxima Centauri was regularly observed with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and simultaneously monitored by other telescopes around the world [1]. This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet [2].

Awesome and amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A earth like planet in the habital zone of our closes star!!!!!

When people don't believe in God they'll believe in anything.

I suggest you go to find out.

what does believing or not believing in god have to do with exploring space?....

What's exploring space have to do with saying aliens exist?

 

[ScienceRocks]

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
24 August 2016
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us — and it may also be the closest possible abode for life outside the Solar System. A paper describing this milestone finding will be published in the journal Nature on 25 August 2016.

Just over four light-years from the Solar System lies a red dwarf star that has been named Proxima Centauri as it is the closest star to Earth apart from the Sun. This cool star in the constellation of Centaurus is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye and lies near to the much brighter pair of stars known as Alpha Centauri AB.

During the first half of 2016 Proxima Centauri was regularly observed with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and simultaneously monitored by other telescopes around the world [1]. This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet [2].

Awesome and amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A earth like planet in the habital zone of our closes star!!!!!

I understand one side always faces it's sun and one side is always cold and dark. But what about the equator? Maybe somewhere in between mexico and Canada is habitable.

This planet would have a thick atmosphere as it has a larger mass then earth, which would spread the heat from the hot side(rising air) to the cold side(sinking air). It would be like a single cell convective system longitudinally. You'd envision the climate of such a planet as hot within the dipole directly facing the sun, but with warmer temperatures on the edges of such and ever colder until you reach its opposite on the cold night side.

Here is a simulation of what I am talking about

Video 04. This is a simulation of the possible surface temperatures of a tidally-locked Proxima b, always giving the same face to its star. The simulations show the large temperature differences between the permanent daylight and nightside hemispheres. This assumes that an ocean and atmosphere transfers heat effectively around the planet, but we do not know yet if this is the case. The temperature range includes habitable conditions, even for complex life (0-50°C). However, Proxima b may also be exposed to high UV and X-ray fluxes that could challenge any presence of life. Proxima b seems to be an extreme, but very interesting planet by terrestrial standards. Additional versions of this video are available here. Credit: M. Turbet/I. Ribas/ESO.

This shows that the hot area might only be around 30c with a strong enough single cell moving energy around the planet. If true then .65 of earths solar flex might be a very favorable level of solar energy for such a planet to receive. Of course, if this simulation is to be believed.

Here is a good link A Potentially Habitable World in Our Nearest Star - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo

 

[sealybobo]

Maybe we get the technology to shrink a human. Or maybe we just send DNA/Seed and plant the planet and on the space ship it will give them instructions on how to find us and communicate with us. We can do it!

oh ok......talk to Ray Palmer or Henry Pym....

So as of now we can probably send messages back and forth at the speed of light so 8 years to send a message and get one back. We can send nano ships in 20 years one way and 18,000 years to get there ourselves. Thats 180 generations. We better get started.

Step one is a base on Mars because it's closer to the meteor belt. To build a ship as big as a small moon we will need those resources.

Should we figure out how to go faster first? No. Because it'll be great for the pilgrims to see new technology catch up to them.

first off bobo we have to have the ships to carry this out.....get them to a refueling station in orbit to replace the fuel used to escape earths gravity.....then get to the Moon base and once again refuel and get the supplies needed to get to Mars......then get to those Asteroids and let the mining begin.....

Imagine there are men who's job is to plan this all out. Because you know they are working on this. Whether it's on paper or the space station or even Voyager 1 & 2. Hell, we even have rovers on Mars and landed a probe on a comet. Yes we are so very far from Star trek but you have heard if you can imagine it you can do it.

Don't be a hater. Sure it seems impossible but people a lot smarter than us are working on it.

Imagine how much more we know today than we did even 100 years ago. Now imagine 1000 years from now

dont be a hater?....were did you get that from?....im all for the space program....i cant stand the people who think its a waste of time.....those ones are too stupid to realize how that program advances science and technology....

You were making fun of squeezing a human into one of those nano bots.

What if we figured out how to transport a person from point a to b in a flash. Think that's impossible? Think about how you can talk to someone in Europe on the phone. Would people 200 years ago believe you could talk into a device and have that voice somehow travel thru the wires and talk to someone in Europe on such a device? With maybe only a 10 second delay? I still don't understand how it works

 

[ScienceRocks]

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
24 August 2016
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us — and it may also be the closest possible abode for life outside the Solar System. A paper describing this milestone finding will be published in the journal Nature on 25 August 2016.

Just over four light-years from the Solar System lies a red dwarf star that has been named Proxima Centauri as it is the closest star to Earth apart from the Sun. This cool star in the constellation of Centaurus is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye and lies near to the much brighter pair of stars known as Alpha Centauri AB.

During the first half of 2016 Proxima Centauri was regularly observed with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and simultaneously monitored by other telescopes around the world [1]. This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet [2].

Awesome and amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A earth like planet in the habital zone of our closes star!!!!!

When people don't believe in God they'll believe in anything.

I suggest you go to find out.

what does believing or not believing in god have to do with exploring space?....

What's exploring space have to do with saying aliens exist?

Well, it makes it easier to find out the answer.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
24 August 2016
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us — and it may also be the closest possible abode for life outside the Solar System. A paper describing this milestone finding will be published in the journal Nature on 25 August 2016.

Just over four light-years from the Solar System lies a red dwarf star that has been named Proxima Centauri as it is the closest star to Earth apart from the Sun. This cool star in the constellation of Centaurus is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye and lies near to the much brighter pair of stars known as Alpha Centauri AB.

During the first half of 2016 Proxima Centauri was regularly observed with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and simultaneously monitored by other telescopes around the world [1]. This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet [2].

Awesome and amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A earth like planet in the habital zone of our closes star!!!!!

When people don't believe in God they'll believe in anything.

I suggest you go to find out.

what does believing or not believing in god have to do with exploring space?....

What's exploring space have to do with saying aliens exist?

i asked you first.....if you dont know just say so....and by the way,God,if he exists....is an Alien being...

 

[Weatherman2020]

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
24 August 2016
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us — and it may also be the closest possible abode for life outside the Solar System. A paper describing this milestone finding will be published in the journal Nature on 25 August 2016.

Just over four light-years from the Solar System lies a red dwarf star that has been named Proxima Centauri as it is the closest star to Earth apart from the Sun. This cool star in the constellation of Centaurus is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye and lies near to the much brighter pair of stars known as Alpha Centauri AB.

During the first half of 2016 Proxima Centauri was regularly observed with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and simultaneously monitored by other telescopes around the world [1]. This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet [2].

Awesome and amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A earth like planet in the habital zone of our closes star!!!!!

When people don't believe in God they'll believe in anything.

I suggest you go to find out.

what does believing or not believing in god have to do with exploring space?....

What's exploring space have to do with saying aliens exist?

i asked you first.....if you dont know just say so....and by the way,God,if he exists....is an Alien being...

You need to go back to 4th grade and learn the meaning of alien.

 

[I amso IR]

I am all for going and getting the low down. However with the following stipulation, I am not going! I plan on finishing my 1/100,000th of a light year right here on earth. I wish all who go, well. As for the 20 gram space ships, moving at 1/4 light speed, "C", good luck with that!

 

[Harry Dresden]

oh ok......talk to Ray Palmer or Henry Pym....

So as of now we can probably send messages back and forth at the speed of light so 8 years to send a message and get one back. We can send nano ships in 20 years one way and 18,000 years to get there ourselves. Thats 180 generations. We better get started.

Step one is a base on Mars because it's closer to the meteor belt. To build a ship as big as a small moon we will need those resources.

Should we figure out how to go faster first? No. Because it'll be great for the pilgrims to see new technology catch up to them.

first off bobo we have to have the ships to carry this out.....get them to a refueling station in orbit to replace the fuel used to escape earths gravity.....then get to the Moon base and once again refuel and get the supplies needed to get to Mars......then get to those Asteroids and let the mining begin.....

Imagine there are men who's job is to plan this all out. Because you know they are working on this. Whether it's on paper or the space station or even Voyager 1 & 2. Hell, we even have rovers on Mars and landed a probe on a comet. Yes we are so very far from Star trek but you have heard if you can imagine it you can do it.

Don't be a hater. Sure it seems impossible but people a lot smarter than us are working on it.

Imagine how much more we know today than we did even 100 years ago. Now imagine 1000 years from now

dont be a hater?....were did you get that from?....im all for the space program....i cant stand the people who think its a waste of time.....those ones are too stupid to realize how that program advances science and technology....

You were making fun of squeezing a human into one of those nano bots.

What if we figured out how to transport a person from point a to b in a flash. Think that's impossible? Think about how you can talk to someone in Europe on the phone. Would people 200 years ago believe you could talk into a device and have that voice somehow travel thru the wires and talk to someone in Europe on such a device? With maybe only a 10 second delay? I still don't understand how it works

i was?.....maybe that aint so impossible either....how do they get all that info on a micro chip?....